So, what’s the moral of the story?

Yes, before publishing anything writers should do their homework and check their sources. Yet, as this podcast has illustrated several times, it’s easy to make mistakes and misattributions too.

My thinking is that when misattributions are corrected, that can be a beautiful opportunity to learn more.

We will make mistakes, attribute ideas to the wrong sources, and hopefully someone will catch them, call our attention to them, and we will be able to correct them. The possibility of misattribution should not stop us to put our work out there into the world – do it anyway.